Program Overview

Social Entrepreneurship, BSBA

Gain leadership skills with a management degree

The bachelor’s degree in social entrepreneurship is designed for students interested in applying a social justice lens to the business community. The core BSBA program provides a strong foundation for any student looking to become a successful business leader and create social change.

Why Roosevelt for your Bachelor's

Create Social Justice Solutions to Modern Business

Students learn to make innovative and conscientious solutions to a range of problems like poverty, education, and health care. These methods allow social entrepreneurs to develop and implement pattern-breaking solutions for previously intractable social problems in ways that are sustainable and have a long-term orientation.

Earn Your Degree in the Windy City

Roosevelt students are working firsthand on social entrepreneurial projects that scale deep in our city. Urban social entrepreneurship is about scaling deep, creating an organization to solve one problem and then using that platform to create new solutions for a holistic approach to resolve structural poverty. Urban social entrepreneurship is both aspirational and innovative and needs imaginative, long-term responses to alleviate poverty and other social issues.

Learn from Experienced Professionals

Courses are taught by highly productive faculty who have firsthand experience applying social justice practices to the business world. Work with our career services team and faculty to strengthen your professional network upon completing the program.

Admission Info

Location

• Chicago
• Start Term: Fall, Spring

Requirements

• Online application
• SAT/ACT scores optional
• Self-reported academic information from high school
• Official transcripts from all previously attended colleges and universities in the United States
• Foreign Credential Evaluation for course work completed outside the U.S.
• English Language Proficiency requirement for all students who completed a degree program outside the United States

Sample Social Entrepreneurship Courses

• Social Entrepreneurship I: Creating the Vision
• Social Entrepreneurship II: Implementation
• Business Planning and Strategic New Ventures
• Community Organizing
• Policy, Law, Ethics

Career Opportunities with a Social Entrepreneurship Degree

• Nonprofit manager
• Social innovation consultant
• Impact investment analyst
• Corporate social responsibility officer

Meet Your Faculty

• Raed Elaydi, Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship

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